PNY GeForce 9600 GT DirectX 10 VCG96512GXEB 512MB 256-Bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Pros: High Performance, Most games run well on max settings. Some examples are Oblivion, Fallout 3, Assassin's Creed, Fear 2 Demo.

Cons: None

Pros: I used this card in a budget gaming system I built for a teenage friend of the family. He can now play all of the new games out on high settings on his 17 inch monitor at 1280 x 1024 resolution. Obviously this card blows away the ATI 1300 PCI card he was using.

Cons: none really.

Overall Review: Not everyone can afford a high-end gaming system and this card is great product for those gamers on a budget. If you consider the performance vs price then this card is a great deal. I've owned several PNY GPU's and never had any problems with their cards.

Pros: Amazing deal for $84. Very quiet and energy efficient. Fast card; it has sent my Vista WEI to 5.9 in graphics. Stable; I have tested it with several 2d/3d graphics programs with "application settings" over-ridden and all relevant features on high. No lag, crashing or blue screening due to it.

Cons: Fan is loud on startup, but very quiet after reaching the desktop. After wards, the fan can be adjusted to your preference using ntune. Can get pretty warm, so an extra cooling solution might be a good idea (especially if you have a small, cramped case).

Overall Review: Great card; especially at this price (84.99 when I bought it) with free shipping! Can't handle Crysis on very high; Crysis suggests all "high", but it works better with water effects low and everything else on high. Works best on most medium and some on high. Works fine with a 300w PSU. Would still suggest a 430watt PSU, though. There will be no regrets, as long as you keep in mind that this is not a high-end card.

Pros: I built a SLI system using this video card and an ECS with the silent cooler. A great advantage of the new SLI systems is that you don't have to have identical cards, you just need to have 2 of the same series with the same core speeds. Having 2 9600 GT's in SLI is faster and gives more frame rates than a high priced top of the end cards.

Cons: This card gets hot under a load, so I would download the NVIDIA control panel and set the fan speeds by yourself and it will keep these cards cooler.

Overall Review: Cards are used in a system with an Asrock 750i motherboard with an AMD 5400 X2 and 2 gigs of OCZ memory. The 9600 GT'S are the way to go especially in SLI they really perform very well for a low end card.

Pros: Great card for the money. Games look great. First day I got it I played Crysis on medium setttings straight through to the end. I've always been a console gamer but now that I got used to the keyboard mouse setup I'm hooked on PC gaming.

Cons: None at all.

Overall Review: Make sure you download the latest drivers from NVIDIA. When using an DVI-HDMI cable to my 37" 720p Toshiba LCD the screen was was cut off on the edges. With the latest drivers I was able to get the 1366x768 resolution that fits perfectly.

Pros: Runs fast.

Cons: RUNS HOT!!!! Been trying to run Crysis on Medium settings on 1280x1024 but the game would crash. Opened my case and had another fan blowing on the card and I had no more problems. The cooling solution for this card needs to be better...

Overall Review: Make sure you have aqueduct cooling in your case to make sure your video card doesn't get too hot. ** Running a AMD X2 5400+ Black Edition w/ Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, OCZ Gold 4gb(2x2gb) DDR2-800 on a ASUS M3N78 Pro Board.

Pros: Runs Crysis on 1024 resolution 4xAA 32fps avg.

Cons: none yet

Overall Review: Built new system around this card. Specs Biostar G31 MB, E5200 processor overclocked to 3.3ghz. 2gigs 6400 memory. Even before overclocking card or processor ran Crysis on above mentioned settings with all details set to high. About 32fps even at 1200 by 1024 res. no eye candy though still all high detail. P.S. card currently clocked at 700 core and 1000 memory stable running about 64 degress under load great purchase.

Pros: Capable of good performance on the graphics, but that's what you'd expect for two 9600 GTs.

Cons: Unacceptable stock cooling. Even with the fan speed at maximum and UNDER clocking this card will lock under stress testing on stock cooling. Have two of them and each will do it. Not reference PCB design so be careful adding a cooling block that cools the RAMs as well.

Overall Review: Low cost of card outweighed by necessity of upgrading the cooling. Do not recommend this product.